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Re: Photos: BMT ''C'' Types |
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Posted by randyo on Fri Jan 1 14:36:04 2010, in response to Re: Photos: BMT ''C'' Types, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Fri Jan 1 13:34:38 2010. The first 2 C types which initially kept their original gate car numbers were built like that. They also had the M/M's cab extended to the full width of the skirts and inside door controls. They were subsequently renumbered to 1500 A, B, C and 1501 A, B, C and had the cabs narrowed to the width of the actual car body and outside door controls like the rest of the car fleet. I rode the last remaining one of the oddballs 1501 in 1956 just before Fulton shut down and it also seemed to me that the M/M's cab door opened backwards to form a transverse cab like the multis and unlike the rest of the C type fleet had a conventional BU type controller instead of the subway type controller that was removed when the steels were unitized in the 1920s. Unfortunately, I was only 11 at the time and nowhere near as equipment savvy as I have become in recent years so my memories of the only time I rode the C types are fuzzy at best. |
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